Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 80 pages
• Published by: Island Press
• Edition: 1st Edition September 1, 1996
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1559635142
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1559635141
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.3 inches
• Weighs: 7.7 ounces

Product Description


Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.

This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world.

Chapters cover:

• patches - size, number, and location
• edges and boundaries
• corridors and connectivity
• mosaics
• summaries of case studies from around the world

Reader Reviews
Quick read if you want to avoid digging through peer-review journals to learn the same principles.